Google is “almost certain” to face prosecution for collecting data from unsecured wi-fi networks, according to Privacy International (PI).
*note from Vanversive* For a while now I have been using startpage.com and using things like facebook and twitter less and less. Since google and companies like it literally record everything you do in hopes of creating a virtual version of you that can predict things you may or may not do in order to sell you something or worse. startpage.com is one of the few search engines that protects your privacy, something I believe will be a legend, yes I said legend when our grandchildren are in their twenties. All this really has nothing to do with the article below, just thought id get that out.
BBC News
June 10, 2010
Google is “almost certain” to face prosecution for collecting data from unsecured wi-fi networks, according to Privacy International (PI).
The search giant has been under scrutiny for collecting wi-fi data as part of its StreetView project.
Google has released an independent audit of the rogue code, which it has claimed was included in the StreetView software by mistake. But PI is convinced the audit proves “criminal intent”.
“The independent audit of the Google system shows that the system used for the wi-fi collection intentionally separated out unencrypted content (payload data) of communications and systematically wrote this data to hard drives. This is equivalent to placing a hard tap and a digital recorder onto a phone wire without consent or authorisation,” said PI in a statement.